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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Today, we celebrate men.

And not just any men: men who make babies! Also, men who adopt babies! Also, men who are with women who made babies with other men! Also, men who adopted babies and there are no women involved except those involved in making the babies! (Ok, so pretty much all men, except for men like me who have no babies. Except my cats.)

We're men!We're men in tights. (Tight Tights!)We roam through the woodslooking for fights.We're men! (MANLY men!)We're men in tiiiights,When you're in a fixJust call for the men in tights!

(We're butch!)

Happy Father's Day Falker Satherhood, all.

*Update! Just so we're clear, when I say "European Football," I am referring to soccer, a game where gently bumping a player results in said player holding his face and screaming in agony while rolling around on the ground. I am in no way referring to Rugby, a game so manly that just typing it has caused hair to burst from under my shirt collar. Glad we cleared that up.

Yum I love vegemite!!! Of course I wouldn't like to eat a vegemite flavoured cake. I'm not sure about your comment regarding American Football being more manly than European Football... I would have thought a sport requiring shoulder pads and a pretty hat was a bit girly. European football's only safety equipment is a pair of thin plastic shinpads... and Australian Rules Football???? You're only allowed a rubber mouthguard to stop getting all your teeth smashed in. Now that IS a manly sport.

awesome post save the whole "MANLY Football" bit. American Football is just sissified Rugby. If they were REAL mean, they forgo all that padding. Which, I might add, REAL footballers don't use discounting shin guards of course.

Huzzah for including a not-traditionally-manly puppy cake! Do you know how hard it is to find a father's day card for a shrink who doesn't play sports, grill, watch sports, ride a Harley, or care about sports? I always just find the cutest kitten card possible and write in the message. Candy & kittens -- that's what really confident dads like.

Those cakes were impressive-- particularly the football and the Harley Davidson cakes. The puppy was just totally adorable (although I would be a bit worried about green fur on an actual dog!). The tools one was well done, but my neighbour would be distraught at so few tools-- and my dad would be befuddled by that many! (for my dad, a telephone to call a contractor is HIS favourite tool!). The video was a hoot, too.

But, as someone who lived in Australia, I do have to agree with others that rugby is more manly than football - the whole "give blood, play rugby" mentality- although I'm with you on football vs soccer. But as a Canadian, having tasted Vegemite , the *only* way that stuff is edible is when it's on Cake Wrecks Sunday Sweets as a fondant covered regular cake :)

Oh John. I love you XD Seriously, you just made me whole day better. Father's Day around my house is pretty depressing since my sister and I really don't have our dad in our lives, and my grandpa died a few years ago. We celebrate with my uncle, the best substitute-dad in the world, and I will be showing this post to him when he comes over for dinner.

Wow! I love the cakes today, and especially the Men in Tights references! My hubby and I just watched that last night - what a weird coincidence. I had never heard of Flight of the Conchords, but after watching the clip, I looked up 5 or 6 of their other clips on YouTube and laughed myself silly! Thanks as always for the wonderful post! You and Jen rock! :D

It took me a minute to figure out that the Harley Davidson cake was not actually something made out of real leather. They're good.I really liked the cigar case cake too, though. Such amazing attention to detail. Not sure about the half-smoked one in the background, though.Yeah, I thought that was Kirk on the toilet at first glance, too. "To boldly go" did not help matters.

loved the Daddy's Day cakes, and yes, the "To Boldly Go" Cake, did need a newspaper in his hand and his drawers down around his ankles - that would make it fitting for most Dad's that I know; the one's who use the "Bridge" for their escape pod from their oh, so crazy crew.

As for the LSU cake, I kept looking for the jockstrap. The cake designer put everything else related to the team on there, so where was the jock strap????

Finally the cute doggie everyone liked. Well, I didn't like it. Why? I thought it had been tortured. Just who in their right mind would twist that cute little puppies paws all around so the bottom of its' feet stuck straight forward??? That's horrible! Sadistic! A crime against cute puppies!!

OH MY GOODNESS! Just when I thought I couldn't love Cake Wrecks any more than I already do...After that business shirt, reading the line "It's business time" had me crossing my fingers hoping for a Flight of the Conchords link. THEN to top things all off, my favorite movie OF ALL TIME was referenced -- Robin Hood: Men in Tights WITH A VIDEO! I'm so overwhelmed. BEST.POST.EVER.

This is why all football players should grow up in rugby nations. Last night the New Zealanders were bouncing back up and the Italians were crying and rolling around clutching themselves. Who are the world champs again?

Now, I reverse-heart fondant, but these are pretty cool.Except that I think James T. Kirk looks more like James Arness...and I don't know what HIS middle initial is.Let's have a little fun and put a sheriff's star on his uniform where the Star Trek badge goes.(I know, that would be blasphemy! Or...maybe it would be blast-off-phemy?)Back to bed for me!

Will now have that men in tights song stuck in my head all night.. until I evilly pass it on to my husband lol. I love that movie! And all of these cakes are so beautiful and detailed makes me wish we had kids so I could buy my hubby one lol.

Seriously! With the getting bumped in the chest and then grabbing his face and rolling around on the pitch for WAY too long?? Ridiculous. Also, could you explain why the 3rd US goal was taken away? So irritating!

American football? Manly? When the players are hiding inside a suit of kevlar armour?And don't get me started on baseball, which we call rounders, and which is typically played by 8 year old girls (also without body armour)...

Amateur football teams are way tougher than professional ones. My little brother's football league only acknowledges injury when there's either bone showing or so much blood it makes the pitch slippery.

*Update! Just so we're clear, when I say "European Football," I am referring to soccer, a game where gently bumping a player results in said player holding his face and screaming in agony while rolling around on the ground. I am in no way referring to Rugby, a game so manly that just typing it has caused hair to burst from under my shirt collar. Glad we cleared that up.DAMN SKIPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Um, yeah....normally I love you guys, but the sissy soccer stuff is crap. American football in pads is a lot of fun to watch, but c'mon...they're wearing pads. Rugby is some serious stuff, and so is soccer (the real football). Shin guards as your only protection, and you have to outwit the other team with the finesse of your feet...that's a manly sport. You have to be fleet of foot, able to strategize, work as part of a well-tuned machine, and keep your hands OFF the ball. You guys were way off about the manly quotient, unless you mean meathead manliness.

I absolutely love your blog, but I was extremely disappointed by your reference to soccer as being a wussy sport. You obviously have never played yourself,so I am assuming the comment comes from ignorance. I consider American football to be the wussy sport. Those guys have to stop every few minutes to rest up and discuss(or be told) what they will do next. In soccer you are running for 45 minutes without a break and have to think on your own while running. I could go on and on.....but anyway GREAT cakes!

...Said he who has probably never played soccer and gotten kicked in the shin with a cleat worn by a guy running about 100 miles an hour. Two words: NO PROTECTION. Sissy is wearing shoulder pads, mouth guard and all other sorts of protection up to *here* while pushing each other around. My own father hates it when I say that, bless his soul, but it's true :)

Since when is it "sissy" to protect yourself from injury? Do you manly rugby snobs also boast about not buckling up while driving? I say, bring on the mouthguards! We like our teeth over on this side of the pond.

You see, in "real" football - you know, the one where they can only touch the ball with their feet - they have these things called "rules" which stop people from punching each other on the field.

However, sports like those fake footballs have dulled people's brains, so they don't notice when little things like "fouls" have occurred. Therefore, the players have to draw attention to them in the time-honoured fashion of silent-movie/melodrama actors.

Namely: much flailing about so that the folks at the back of the house can see that something has happened.

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